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<h1 id="title">HelpOnSearching</h1>
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<h1 id="Queries">Queries</h1>
<span class="anchor" id="line-10"></span><span class="anchor" id="line-11"></span><p class="line862">With the <a href="https://ffii.org/MoinMoin">MoinMoin</a> search engine the same search patterns are allowed in the search and title search input fields as in the parameters for the <tt>FullSearch</tt>  <tt>(FullSearchCached)</tt> and the <tt>PageList</tt> macros. <span class="anchor" id="line-12"></span><span class="anchor" id="line-13"></span><ul><li>There may be several search terms separated by white space <span class="anchor" id="line-14"></span><ul><li>By default, terms are connected by conjunction - only pages containing all search term are returned <span class="anchor" id="line-15"></span></li><li>Double or single quotes may be used to include white space within search terms (phrase search), to search for the quotes themselves either quote them in the other type of quote or double them within a quoted string <span class="anchor" id="line-16"></span></li></ul></li><li><p class="line891"><tt class="backtick">-</tt> before a search term inverts it, pages containing this term will be excluded from the result <span class="anchor" id="line-17"></span></li><li><p class="line891"><tt class="backtick">regex:TERM</tt> is treated as a regular expression.  MoinMoin follows Python regex rules (see <a class="http" href="http://docs.python.org/lib/re-syntax.html">http://docs.python.org/lib/re-syntax.html</a> for more info) <span class="anchor" id="line-18"></span></li><li><p class="line891"><tt class="backtick">title:TERM</tt> searches in pages whose titles match TERM <span class="anchor" id="line-19"></span><ul><li>Normal search terms do search the titles, too. Matches in titles get more weight than matches in pages. <span class="anchor" id="line-20"></span></li></ul></li><li><p class="line891"><tt>case:TERM</tt> searches case sensitive <span class="anchor" id="line-21"></span></li><li><p class="line891"><tt>linkto:TERM</tt> searches for links to TERM <span class="anchor" id="line-22"></span></li><li><p class="line891"><tt>language:LANG-ISO-CODE</tt> searches for pages written in a given language ISO code, e.g. en, de <span class="anchor" id="line-23"></span></li><li><p class="line891"><tt>category:CategorySomething</tt> searches for pages belonging to Category<tt class="backtick"></tt>Something <span class="anchor" id="line-24"></span></li><li><p class="line891"><tt>mimetype:TYPE</tt> searches for pages and attachments with mimetype TYPE, e.g. image/png <span class="anchor" id="line-25"></span><ul><li style="list-style-type:none"><p class="line891"><img alt="/!\" height="15" src="https://ffii.org/static/sinorca4moin/img/alert.png" title="/!\" width="15" /> <tt>mimetype:</tt> search has limited support for the builtin search (only pages have a mimetype - <tt class="backtick">text/&lt;format&gt;</tt>) <span class="anchor" id="line-26"></span></li></ul></li><li><p class="line891"><tt>domain:TERM</tt> searches for pages in a domain like underlay or system (for system pages) <span class="anchor" id="line-27"></span></li><li><p class="line891"><tt>title:</tt>, <tt>regex:</tt>, <tt>linkto:</tt> and <tt>case:</tt> may be used in combination in one search term <span class="anchor" id="line-28"></span><ul><li><p class="line862">these modifiers may be abbreviated to any length: e.g. <tt>re:</tt>, <tt>t:</tt>, <tt>reg:</tt>, <tt>cas:</tt>, <tt>l:</tt> <span class="anchor" id="line-29"></span></li><li><p class="line862">If you want to use multiple prefixes, you have to concatenate them like this: <tt class="backtick">t:re:TERM</tt> <span class="anchor" id="line-30"></span></li><li><p class="line891"><tt class="backtick">-</tt> must be put before any other modifiers <span class="anchor" id="line-31"></span></li></ul></li><li><p class="line891"><tt class="backtick">OR</tt> operator has a lower precedence than the implicit AND (e.g., <tt class="backtick">car&nbsp;diesel&nbsp;or&nbsp;gas</tt> will find any page containing both "car" and "diesel", but will also hit on pages containing "gas", even if "car" is not on the page.) <span class="anchor" id="line-32"></span></li><li>Parentheses can be used for grouping <span class="anchor" id="line-33"></span><span class="anchor" id="line-34"></span></li></ul><p class="line867">
<h2 id="Examples">Examples</h2>
<span class="anchor" id="line-35"></span><span class="anchor" id="line-36"></span><p class="line867"><span class="anchor" id="line-37"></span><span class="anchor" id="line-38"></span><pre>title:Help macro</pre><span class="anchor" id="line-39"></span><p class="line874">searches for help pages that contain the word "macro". <span class="anchor" id="line-40"></span><span class="anchor" id="line-41"></span><p class="line867"><span class="anchor" id="line-42"></span><span class="anchor" id="line-43"></span><pre>apple (computer or "operating system")</pre><span class="anchor" id="line-44"></span><p class="line874">searches for pages containing the word "apple" and at least one of "computer" or "operating system". <span class="anchor" id="line-45"></span><span class="anchor" id="line-46"></span><p class="line867"><span class="anchor" id="line-47"></span><span class="anchor" id="line-48"></span><pre>windows winamp or linux xmms</pre><span class="anchor" id="line-49"></span><p class="line874">searches for pages containing both "windows" and "winamp", and also for pages containing both "linux" and "xmms". <span class="anchor" id="line-50"></span><span class="anchor" id="line-51"></span><p class="line867"><span class="anchor" id="line-52"></span><span class="anchor" id="line-53"></span><pre>"is text"</pre><span class="anchor" id="line-54"></span><p class="line862">Will match "th<strong>is text</strong>" or "<strong>is text</strong>s". Quotes are used only to include whitespace. <span class="anchor" id="line-55"></span><span class="anchor" id="line-56"></span><p class="line867"><span class="anchor" id="line-57"></span><span class="anchor" id="line-58"></span><pre>linkto:WindowsPage title:Linux</pre><p class="line862"> searches for pages that have "Linux" in the page name and that link to WindowsPage<span class="anchor" id="line-59"></span><span class="anchor" id="line-60"></span><p class="line867"><span class="anchor" id="line-61"></span><span class="anchor" id="line-62"></span><pre>r:\bdog\b</pre><p class="line862"> searches for the word "dog" and does <em>not</em> find e.g. the word "doggy".<span class="anchor" id="line-63"></span><span class="anchor" id="line-64"></span><p class="line867"><span class="anchor" id="line-65"></span><span class="anchor" id="line-66"></span><pre>help -domain:system</pre><p class="line874"> search for pages containing the word "help" but which are not system pages<span class="anchor" id="line-67"></span><span class="anchor" id="line-68"></span><p class="line867"><span class="anchor" id="line-69"></span><span class="anchor" id="line-70"></span><pre>category:CategoryHomepage title:thomas</pre><p class="line862"> search for pages in <a href="https://ffii.org/CategoryHomepage">CategoryHomepage</a> with the word "thomas" in the title (user homepages of all persons named Thomas)<span class="anchor" id="line-71"></span><span class="anchor" id="line-72"></span><p class="line867">
<h2 id="TitleSearch_and_PageList">TitleSearch and PageList</h2>
<span class="anchor" id="line-73"></span><ul><li>uses the same patterns <span class="anchor" id="line-74"></span></li><li><p class="line891"><tt>title:</tt> is implicitly added to every search term <span class="anchor" id="line-75"></span><span class="anchor" id="line-76"></span></li></ul><p class="line867">
<h2 id="Xapian">Xapian</h2>
<span class="anchor" id="line-77"></span><span class="anchor" id="line-78"></span><p class="line862">See <a href="https://ffii.org/HelpOnXapian">HelpOnXapian</a> for more information on Xapian and its setup. <span class="anchor" id="line-79"></span><span class="anchor" id="bottom"></span></div>
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